List of international presidential trips made by George W. Bush explained

This is a list of international presidential trips made by George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States. George W. Bush made 49 international trips to 73 countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency, which began on January 20, 2001 and ended on January 20, 2009.^[1]

Bush visited six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. On one of his two trips to Sub-Saharan Africa, he visited three of the poorest countries in the world at the time: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin. He also made a secret trip to Iraq on Thanksgiving Day 2003 to dine with the troops. His father had made a similar visit to the U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990. On November 15–20, 2006, Bush made the third round the world presidential flight (after Johnson and Nixon).

Summary

The number of visits per country where President Bush travelled are:

• One visit to Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Kosovo, Kuwait, Liberia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Rwanda, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vietnam, and the West Bank
• Two visits to Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Peru, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, and Thailand
• Three visits to Egypt, South Korea, and Poland
• Four visits to Canada, China, France, Iraq, and Japan
• Five visits to Germany and Vatican City
• Six visits to Italy, Mexico and the United Kingdom
• Seven visits to Russia

First term (2001–2005)

2001

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1	Mexico	San Cristóbal		Met with President Vincente Fox; discussed trade, energy, migration, educational opportunities, and the battle against the illegal drug trade.^[2]
2	Canada	Quebec City		Attended the 3rd Summit of the Americas.
3		Madrid		Met with King Juan Carlos I at the Royal Palace of Madrid and later with Prime Minister José María Aznar at the Palace of Moncloa. The President stayed at the Hotel Miguel Angel during his overnight visit.
	Belgium	Brussels		Attended the NATO Summit Meeting. Met with King Albert II and Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. The President visited Chocolatier Mary during his visit.
	Sweden	Gothenburg		Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Prime Minister Göran Persson, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country. The President stayed at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel during his overnight visit.
	Poland	Warsaw		State Visit. Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski at the Presidential Palace and Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. The President delivered a foreign policy speech in front of faculty and students at Warsaw University during his visit. He also participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Piłsudski Square. The President stayed at the Warsaw Marriott Hotel during his overnight visit.
	Slovenia	Kranj		Attended the summit meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Also met with Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek.
4	United Kingdom	London, Chequers, Halton, Brize Norton		President and Mrs. Bush arrived in London on the evening of July 18. On July 19, the President met with M.P. William Hague, Leader of the Conservative Party, at Winfield House. President and Mrs. Bush later attended an event for children at the British Museum. The President also visited the Churchill War Rooms museum. In the afternoon, President and Mrs. Bush participated in an arrival ceremony at Buckingham Palace and attended a luncheon hosted by Queen Elizabeth. They later traveled to Chequers to meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie before spending the night at the prime minister's country estate.
		Genoa, Castel Gandolfo, Rome		Attended the 27th G8 summit. Met with Pope John Paul II. Also met with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
		Camp Bondsteel		Addressed U.S. military personnel.
5		Shanghai		Attended APEC Summit Meeting.

2002

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6	Japan	Tokyo		Met with Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Addressed the Diet.
		Seoul, Dorasan, Osan		Met with President Kim Dae-jung. Visited the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	China	Beijing		Met with President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji.
7	Mexico	Monterrey		Attended the International Conference on Financing for Development. Met with President Vicente Fox.
	Peru	Lima		Met with the presidents Alejandro Toledo of Peru, Andrés Pastrana Arango of Colombia, and Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia, and with the vice president Pedro Pinto Rubianes of Ecuador.
		San Salvador		Attended the Summit Meeting of Presidents of the Central American Republics.
8	Germany	Berlin		Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Addressed the Bundestag.
		Moscow, St. Petersburg		Summit meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Signed Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty.
				Met with President Jacques Chirac. Delivered a Memorial Day address in Normandy.
		Rome		Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Attended the NATO Summit Meeting and inaugurated the NATO-Russia Council.
		Apostolic Palace		Audience with Pope John Paul II.
9				Attended the 28th G8 summit.
10		Los Cabos		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
11	Czech Republic	Prague		Attended the NATO and EAPC Summit Meetings.
		St. Petersburg		Met with President Vladimir Putin.
	Lithuania	Vilnius		Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
	Romania	Bucharest		Met with President Ion Iliescu.

2003

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12		Terceira Island		Discussed the Iraq crisis with British prime minister Tony Blair, Spanish prime minister José María Aznar and Portuguese prime minister José Manuel Barroso.
13		Belfast, Hillsborough		Met with Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the reconstruction of Iraq. Also met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Northern Irish political leaders.
14		Kraków, Oświęcim		Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Visited Nazi-German Auschwitz concentration camp.
		St. Petersburg		Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended ceremonies commemorating the city's 300th anniversary.
		Evian-les-Bains		Attended the 29th G8 summit. Met with Chinese president Hu Jintao.
	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh		Attended the "Red Sea Summit" with the leaders of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
	Jordan	Aqaba		Attended meetings with Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas. Met with King Abdullah II.
	Qatar	Doha		Met with Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. Visited U.S. Central Command headquarters and addressed U.S. military personnel, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
15	Senegal	Dakar, Gorée Island		Met with President Abdoulaye Wade.
		Pretoria		Met with President Thabo Mbeki.
	Botswana	Gaborone		Met with President Festus Mogae. Toured Mokolodi Nature Reserve.
	Uganda	Kampala		Met with President Yoweri Museveni.
	Nigeria	Abuja		Met with President Olusegun Obasanjo.
16	Japan	Tokyo		Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
	Philippines	Manila		Addressed a joint session of the Philippine Congress and met with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
		Bangkok		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
	Singapore	Singapore		Met with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.
	Indonesia	Denpasar		Met with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Muslim religious leaders.
		Canberra		Met with Prime Minister John Howard. Addressed joint meeting of Parliament.
17		London, Sedgefield		State Visit. Met with Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
18	Iraq	Baghdad		The President travelled in secret from his ranch in Texas to Andrews Air Force Base, where reporters were told not to use their devices or leak news of the trip, and then to Iraq.^[3] Met with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Iraqi Governing Council, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country. Addressed U.S. military personnel.

2004

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19		Monterrey		Attended the Special Summit of the Americas.
20	Italy	Rome		Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
		Apostolic Palace		Met with Pope John Paul II.
		Paris, Colleville, Caen, Arromanches		Met with President Jacques Chirac. Attended the 60th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies.
21	Ireland			Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting. Met with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.
		Ankara, Istanbul		Met with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Attended the NATO Summit meeting.
22	Chile	Santiago		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
	Colombia			Met with President Álvaro Uribe.
23	Canada	Ottawa, Gatineau, Halifax		Met with Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Myra Freeman and Prime Minister Paul Martin. The President spent the night at Lornado, the official residence of the U.S. ambassador in Ottawa, before traveling to Halifax to thank Canadians for their hospitality in hosting stranded Americans on September 11, 2001.^[4]

Second term (2005–2009)

2005

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24	Belgium	Brussels		Attended the NATO and EU Summit Meetings.
	Germany	Mainz, Wiesbaden		Met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Visited U.S. military personnel.
	Slovakia	Bratislava		Attended the summit meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country. Also met with Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda.
25		St. Peter's Basilica		Attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
	Italy	Rome		Met with President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
26	Latvia	Riga		Met with the Presidents of the Baltic states.
				Met with Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende. Delivered address at the Netherlands American Cemetery, marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.^[5]
		Moscow		Met with President Vladimir Putin. Attended the 60th anniversary of VE Day ceremonies.
	Georgia	Tbilisi		Met with President Mikheil Saakashvili, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
27	Denmark			Met with Queen Margrethe II and Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
	United Kingdom	Gleneagles		Attended the 31st G8 summit.
28	Argentina	Mar del Plata		Attended the 4th Summit of the Americas. Met with President Nestor Kirchner.
		Brasília		Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
	Panama	Panama City		Met with President Martín Torrijos.
29	Japan	Kyoto		Met with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
		Pusan, Gyeongju, Osan		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting. Met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	China	Beijing		Met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar		Met with President Nambaryn Enkhbayar and Prime Minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.

2006

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30		Shannon		Met with U.S. Marines who were en route to Iraq.
		Bagram, Kabul		Met with President Hamid Karzai. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
				Met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Signed U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement.
	Pakistan	Islamabad		Met with President Pervez Musharraf.
31	Mexico	Cancún, Chichen-Itza		Attended the 2nd North American Leaders' Summit with President Vincente Fox and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper; visited the Chichen-Itza archaeological site.
32		Baghdad		Met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
33		Vienna		Attended the U.S.-EU Summit Meeting.
		Budapest		Met with President László Sólyom and Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. Attended the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising.
34	Germany	Stralsund, Trinwillershagen		Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
		St. Petersburg		Attended the 32nd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
35		Moscow		Met with President Vladimir Putin.
		Singapore		Met with the chairman of the Singapore Council of Presidential Advisers, J. Y. Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Addressed National University of Singapore.
				Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
	Indonesia			Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
36	Estonia	Tallinn		Met with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
	Latvia	Riga		Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
	Jordan	Amman		Met with King Abdullah II and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

2007

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37	Brazil	São Paulo		Met with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
	Uruguay	Montevideo		Met with President Tabaré Vázquez.
	Colombia	Bogotá		Met with President Álvaro Uribe.
	Guatemala	Guatemala City, Santa Cruz Balanyá, Iximche		Informal visit; met with President Óscar Berger; visited the Iximche archaeological site.
	Mexico	Mérida, Uxmal		Met with President Felipe Calderón; visited the Uxmal archaeological site.
38	Czech Republic	Prague		Met with President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek. Addressed Conference on Democracy and Security.
	Germany	Heiligendamm		Attended the 33rd G8 summit. Met with Chinese President Hu Jintao.
	Poland	Gdańsk, Jurata		Met with President Lech Kaczyński.
	Italy	Rome		Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
		Apostolic Palace		Audience with Pope Benedict XVI.
	Albania	Tirana		Met with President Alfred Moisiu and Prime Minister Sali Berisha, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
	Bulgaria	Sofia		Met with President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev.
39	Canada	Montebello		Attended North American Leaders' Summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican president Felipe Calderón.
40	Iraq	Al Asad Airbase		Met with Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, senior U.S. officials, Iraqi political leaders. Addressed U.S military personnel.
	Australia	Sydney		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.

2008

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41		Tel Aviv, Jerusalem		Met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. Visited Yad Vashem.
		Ramallah, Bethlehem		Met with President Mahmoud Abbas. Visited the Church of the Nativity.
	Kuwait	Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan		Attended Roundtable on Democracy and Development. Met with Gen. David Petraeus and United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Bahrain	Manama		Met with King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Addressed U.S. military personnel, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi, Dubai		Met with President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh, Al-Janadriyah		Met with King Abdullah.
	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh		Met with President Hosni Mubarak.
42	Benin	Porto Novo		Met with President Yayi Boni, becoming the first U.S. president to visit the country.
		Dar es Salaam, Arusha		Met with President Jakaya Kikwete. Signed Millenimum Challenge agreement.
	Rwanda	Kigali		Met with President Paul Kagame. Dedicated new U.S. Embassy.
	Ghana	Accra		Met with President John Kufuor.
	Liberia	Monrovia		Met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
43	Ukraine	Kyiv		Met with President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
	Romania	Bucharest		Attended the NATO Summit Meeting.
	Croatia	Zagreb		Met with President Stjepan Mesić.
		Sochi		Met with President Vladimir Putin and President-elect Dmitry Medvedev.
44	Israel			Met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Addressed the Knesset. Attended Israel's 60th anniversary. Visited the Masada fortification site.
	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh, al-Janadriyah		Met with King Abdullah.
	Egypt	Sharm el-Sheikh		Met with President Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Pakistani prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. Addressed the World Economic Forum.
45	Slovenia	Ljubljana		Met with President Danilo Türk and Prime Minister Janez Janša. Attended the EU-US Summit Meeting.
	Germany	Meseberg		Met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
	Italy	Rome		Met with President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
		Apostolic Palace		Met with Pope Benedict XVI.
	France	Paris		Met with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Addressed the OECD. Attended wreath-laying ceremonies at the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial and Mémorial de la France combattante.
		London, Belfast		Met with Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. Met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Quartet Representative Tony Blair. In Belfast, met with First Minister Peter Robertson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
46				Attended the 34th G8 summit. Met with Tanzanian president Kikwete, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese president Hu Jintao and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak.
47		Seoul		Met with President Lee Myung-bak. Addressed U.S. military personnel.
	Thailand	Bangkok		Met with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
	China	Beijing		Attended the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Met with President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
48	Peru	Lima		Attended the APEC Summit Meeting.
49	Iraq	Baghdad		Met with President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Signed Strategic Framework and Security Agreements. Visited U.S. military personnel.
	Afghanistan	Kabul		Met with President Hamid Karzai. Visited U.S. military personnel.
	United Kingdom	RAF Mildenhall		Stopped during return to Washington D.C.. Met with military personnels.^[6]

Multilateral meetings

Multilateral meetings of the following intergovernmental organizations took place during President Bush's term in office (2001–2009).

Group	Year
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
APEC	October 20–21 Shanghai	October 26–27 Los Cabos	October 20–21 Bangkok	November 20–21 Santiago	November 18–19 Busan	November 18–19 Hanoi	September 8–9 Sydney
G8	July 21–22 Genoa			June 8–10 Sea Island				July 7–9 Tōyako
NALS	none	none	none	none	March 23 Waco	March 31 Cancún	August 20–21 Montebello
NATO	June 13 Brussels		none	June 28–29 Istanbul	February 25 Brussels	November 28–29 Riga	none	April 2–4 Bucharest
SOA (OAS)	April 20–22 Quebec City	none	none	January 12–13 Monterrey	November 4–5 Mar del Plata	none	none	none
Others	U.S.–EU Summit June 14–15 Gothenburg	Central American Summit March 24 San Salvador	Red Sea Summit June 2–3 Sharm el-Sheikh	U.S.–EU Summit June 25–26 Dromoland Castle	none	U.S.–EU Summit June 20–21 Vienna	none	U.S.–EU Summit June 9–10 Ljubljana

See also

• Foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration
• Foreign policy of the United States
• List of international trips made by Colin Powell as United States Secretary of State
• List of international trips made by Condoleezza Rice as United States Secretary of State

External links

• Travels of President George W. Bush. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Travels of President George W. Bush. U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
2. Web site: The President's News Conference With President Vicente Fox of Mexico in San Cristobal, Mexico. The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. April 7, 2016. February 16, 2001.
3. News: Timeline of Bush's secret journey. 20 March 2023. CNN. November 28, 2003.
4. Web site: Bush in Halifax: 'Thank you for your kindness' . CBC . 2004-12-01.
5. Web site: Bush honors WWII dead on Netherlands stop: Marking V-E Day, president reflects on 'terribler price'. NBC News. May 8, 2005. February 26, 2016.
6. Web site: Fuels Management Flight breaks refueling record during Presidential visit . US Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces in Africa . December 19, 2008 . October 10, 2024.